2024
From The Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2024: Trump Was Convicted by a Jury, Not by His Political Enemies.
2021
From History News Network, June 6, 2021: America’s First Peaceful (Just Barely!) Transfer of Power.
Lapham’s Quarterly, May 24, 2021. “The Memes That Made Us” – the origin story of “one nation, indivisible.”
“The Story Behind the Declaration’s Most Memorable Line” Excerpted from The Words That Made Us; appears on Time.com, May 7, 2021.
“Criticizing the Founders is in vogue these days, but what they did was extraordinary.” From The Atlantic, May 4, 2021
2020
“Election Tampering In Plain Sight: What Two Federal Judges Just Did in Minnesota,” New York Daily News, Nov. 1
“The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law,” New York Times, Oct. 28 (with Vikram David Amar and Neal Kumar Katyal)
“The Roberts Court is Nothing Like America,” New York Times, July 14
2019
“Actually, The Electoral College Was a Pro-Slavery Ploy,” New York Times, April 6
“Be Skeptical of Law-School and Other College Rankings. Very Skeptical,” Los Angeles Times, March 19
2018
AMAR/ Third thoughts on Kavanaugh, Yale Daily News, Oct. 10, 2018
“Second Thoughts on Kavanaugh,” Yale Daily News, Sept. 24-25, 2018
“A Liberal’s Case for Brett Kavanaugh,” New York Times, July 9
“Kavanaugh Understands a Good Judge is an Umpire—Not a Diva,” The Hill, Sept. 14, 2018
“A Careful and Subtle Opinion,” Washington Post, Aug. 31, 2018 (section of the column)
“As Maine Goes, So May Go the Nation on Kavanaugh,” Portland Press Herald, Aug. 24
“What Justice Kennedy’s Legacy Could Mean for the Future of the Supreme Court,” Time.com, June 29, 2018
“Justice Kennedy Reminds Trump he is not Above the Law,” CNN, June 27 (with Vikram David Amar)
2017
“President Trump is Constitutionally Right on the CFPB Even if we Oppose him Otherwise,” USA TODAY, Nov. 30 (with Steven Calabresi)
The Senate’s filibuster follies/ Despite the hue and cry, the ‘nuclear option’ is nothing to fear – New York Daily News, April 8, 2017
Can senators reject Gorsuch for purely political reasons? And other confirmation questions, answered – Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2017
Opinion | What Gorsuch Has in Common With Liberals – The New York Times, March 19, 2017
Will the Neil Gorsuch pick exacerbate or help heal America’s deep divisions? Slate, Feb. 1, 2017
2016
“Should the Electoral College be Abolished?,” New York Times, Nov. 16, 2016 (“Room for Debate,” with Charles Fried)
“The Real Reason We Have the Electoral College: To Protect Slave States,” Vox, Nov. 12 (conversation with Sean Illing)
Voting History| The Real Reason the Electoral College Exists | Time.com, November 8, 2016.
Impeach Hillary Clinton? A boon for Democrats (Opinion); CNN, Nov. 4
Comey is a Constitutional Lightweight, and Donald Trump Remains the Only Scandal Worth Talking About
“Comey is a Constitutional Lightweight, and Donald Trump Remains the Only Scandal Worth Talking About,” Slate, Oct. 31, 2016
“Ten Questions and Answers About the Electoral College,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 7, 2016
“A Modest Proposal to Replace Trump with Pence—With or Without Trump’s Consent,” Vox, Oct. 6, 2016
The Court after Scalia: The despicable and dispensable exclusionary rule (Corrected), SCOTUSblog (Sep. 16, 2016, 1:57 PM)
“How Hillary Clinton is Like Alexander Hamilton,” Time, Aug. 25, 2016 (Ideas Section conversation with Lily Rothman)
“Supreme Court Breakfast Table,” Slate, June 25-28, 2016 (conversation with Walter Dellinger, Dawn Johnsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Richard A. Posner, and Mark Joseph Stern). Professor Amar’s authored articles are concatenated here.
“Democrats Should Demand Merrick Garland Hearings, Wait Until November to Vote,” Slate, March 18, 2016.
“How Merrick Garland is Like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama,” Slate, March 17, 2016
“One Strategy to Improve Garland’s Chances,” CNN, March 16, 2016. Essay among collection: “Merrick Garland, Obama’s Supreme Court pick, gives GOP a headache.”
“Can Obama be Reagan? Can the Senate be Reasonable?” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 2016 (with Vikram David Amar)
“Cruz Citizenship Case Should be Tried in Court of Public Opinion,” Reuters, Jan. 19, 2016
“Why Ted Cruz is Eligible to be President,” CNN, Jan. 13, 2016